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Memory Project Archive
Tom Reginald Rappel (Primary Source)
Tom Reginald Rappel served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Tom Richard Robson (Primary Source)
Tom Richard Robson served during the Second World War. Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Tom William Gordon Fraser (Primary Source)
Tom William Gordon Fraser served during the Second World War. Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Tony Elliott (Primary Source)
Tony Elliot served with the Royal Marines during the Second World War. He immigrated to Canada after the war, and joined the Canadian Army when the Korean War broke out in the summer of 1950. He was sent to Korea as a tank driver with “C Squadron” of the Lord Strathcona’s Horse. The squadron fought in numerous engagements, including the Battle of Chai-li in May 1951 and Hill 158, where Mr. Elliott was wounded.Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Una May Miklos (Primary Source)
Una May Miklos served with the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service during the Second World War. She was stationed at the HMCS Shelburne in Nova Scotia.Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Una Sinclair Golding (Primary Source)
Una Sinclair Golding served with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps during the Second World War.Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Val Rimer (Primary Source)
Val Rimer served as a gunner operator with the Army during the Second World War. He was part of the Canadian force that took part in the Italian Campaign.Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Valerie "Val" Crisp Langdon (Primary Source)
Valerie "Val" Crisp Langdon served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women’s Division during the Second World War. She was stationed in Ontario and Quebec, working as a photographer.Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Valmont Bouchard (Primary Source)
Valmont Bouchard served during the Second World War. Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Velma Jean "Shortly" Arnold, née Jewell (Primary Source)
Velma Jean "Shortly" Arnold, née Jewell served during the Second World War with the Canadian Women Army Corps. Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Vera Peel (Primary Source)
Vera Peel served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division during the Second World War. Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Vern Westhaver (Primary Source)
Vern Westhaver served in the Second World War. Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Verna Ritchie (Primary Source)
In 2010, The Memory Project interviewed Verna Ritchie, who served overseas during the Second World War. Verna Estella Ritchie (née Johnson) was born in Toronto, Ontario, on 23 October 1917. She joined the Canadian Red Cross Corps as a nurse in 1941, and was sent to England in 1944 to help rehabilitate servicemembers who had become blind during the war. Ritchie and her colleagues worked at St. Dunstan’s, which had been established during the First World War as the Hostel for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors. During the Second World War, St. Dunstan’s [now Blind Veterans UK] was located in Church Stretton, Shropshire. After the war, Ritchie worked at a Toronto insurance company; she married Herbert Ritchie and volunteered with the Toronto District School Board and the Scouts Canada. Ritchie died on 19 July 2013 at Toronto Western Hospital. Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Vernon Barr (Primary Source)
Vernon Barr served in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals during the Second World War. Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Victor George Martin (Primary Source)
In 2009, The Memory Project interviewed Victor Martin, a veteran of the Second World War. The following recording (and transcript) is an excerpt from this interview. Born on 25 November 1921, Martin enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, in August 1940 at the age of 18. He trained for six weeks in Halifax before entering active service. In this testimony, Martin discusses working on various ships traversing the North Atlantic, including attempts to locate and sink enemy vessels such as the Bismarck, Germany’s largest battleship. (See Battle of the Atlantic.) Martin was discharged from the navy in August 1945 in Toronto, Ontario, after five years of service, having achieved the rank of leading seaman. After the war, he worked as a locomotive engineer with Canadian National Railway. Martin died in Sarnia, Ontario, on 11 May 2019 at the age of 97. Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker's recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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